Floss-cabinet.



PATENTED AUG. 2

G. E. EMORY.

FLOSS CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 7. 1903.

E0 MODEL.

ENVEN'FUFK WETHESSE:

Patented August 2, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. EMORY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

FLOSS-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,333, dated. August 2, 1904,

Application filed November '7, 1903. Serial No. 180,234. No model.)

To all Hill/OWL it may concern."

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. EMORY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Floss- Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to. improvements in floss-cabinets, and has for its object to provide a cabinet which will not only prevent the floss from becoming tangled when removing separate threads therefrom, but the silk, being incased in the closed compartments, will always remain clean.

Another object resides in having each color arranged in separate compartments, and you can tell at a glance by looking at the end of the cabinet what color is desired, and by this arrangement only the silk that is desired is touched, whereas in the old method of having all the floss together the material would be handled several different times before the correct color would be found. This not only soils the floss, but it will become matted and render it unfit for use. These objectionable features are entirely done away with by the use of my device.

Still another object is to construct a flosscabinet which will be neat in appearance, strong, durable, and inexpensive to manufacture.

Figure 1 represents my floss-cabinet with the cover removed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on the line 2 .2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is one of the spring forked floss-holders.

In describing my improved device the numeral I represents the cabinet, which is made oblong in form and divided into separate compartments by longitudinal partitions 5. The

spring fingers 6, over which the floss is stretched, are made irregular in form, so as to exert a pressure against the inner walls of the partitions 0 when the same are inserted in their respective compartments. The springfingers are secured to a block 7 by screws or other fastening means, as at 8. Said block is concave at 9, so as the floss will not slip off, and, again, in removing the threads, the block being hollowed out, the strands can be caught by the fingers much easier. The spring-fingers are likewise cut out, as at 10. This is to perform the same function as the hollowedout end of block 7. The block 7 has a groove 11 in the lower face thereof. This fits over the partition, as shown in Fig. 1, will separate the spring-fingers, and when so placed the tension of fingers against the partitionwalls will prevent the floss from becoming tangled when the threads are being removed therefrom.

When the floss is first placed on the springfingers, previous to being inserted in the cabinet, it will appear as illustrated in Fig. 3; but before doing so the skein must be cut on the line A. A, after which the same can be placed in the cabinet, as shown in Fig. 1, and is then ready for use.

Having described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a floss-cabinet the combination of an oblong casing, longitudinal partitions arranged therein, and spring forked fingers placed between said partitions, substantially for the purpose set forth.

2. In a floss-cabinet, the combination of an oblong casing, a block in the casing, spring forked fingers secured to the block, said block and end of fingers constructed so as to receive the floss, substantially for the purpose set forth. I

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 6th day of November, 1903.

CHARLES E. EMORY. itnesses:

JOHN NOLAND, J. P. APPLEMAN. 

